Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction

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Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use of equations, but there is a Mathematical Appendix for those desiring stronger fare. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, complementarity, the problematic character of measurement, and decoherence are among the many topics discussed. This volume offers the reader access to one of the greatest discoveries in the history of physics and one of the oustanding intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.


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Gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. Offers readers access to one of the greatest discoveries in the history of physics and one f the outstanding intellectual achievements of the twentieth century. Softcover.


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"Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. In simple, non-mathematical language this book unravels the strange and exciting ideas that make the subatomic world so different from the world of the every day." John Polkinghorne discusses such topics as uncertainty, unpredictability, wave/particle duality, the unresolved problem of measurement, demystifying one of the greatest discoveries in the history of physics and one of the outstanding intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.


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